| Editorial |
|
| The Editor's Drawers |
ii |
Humor and Ethnicity in
the Americas / On the Borderlands
Karen
L. Kilcup
|
1 |
| Essays |
|
Laughter in the Aisles:
Affect and Power in Contemporary Theoretical and Cultural Discourse
John
Bruns |
5 |
Hybrid History: The Pequot
War and American Indian Humor
Dennis
R. Perry |
25 |
Humor in Spain's American
Colonies: The Case of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Julie
Greer Johnson
|
35 |
| The Recovery Room |
|
The Comedy of
Assimilation in Leo Rosten's Hyman Kaplan Stories
Dan
Shiffman
Mr.
K and the Magi, by Leo Rosten
|
49
59 |
| The Year's Work |
|
The Year's Work in American
Humor Studies, 1999
Judith
Yaross Lee
|
65 |
| Reviews |
|
Mark Twain: A Literary
Life, by Everett Emerson
Reviewed
by John Bird |
75 |
Encyclopedia of 20th-Century
American Humor, by Alleen Pace Nilsen and Don F. Nilsen
Reviewed
by Joseph B. McCullough |
76 |
Performing Gender
and Comedy: Theories, Texts, and Contexts, ed. Shannon Hengen
Reviewed
by Ann Ryan |
77 |
Inventing Jerry Lewis,
by Frank Krutnik
Reviewed
by J.P. Steed |
80 |
The Trickster Shift:
Humor and Irony in Contemporary Native Art, by Allan J. Ryan
Reviewed
by James E. Caron |
82 |
Humor in Twentieth-Century
British Literature: A Reference Guide, by Don L. F. Nilsen
Reviewed
by William F. Naufftus |
83 |
Defining New
Yorker Humor, by Judith Yaross Lee
Reviewed
by Bruce Michelson
|
85 |
| Contributors |
88 |
| Announcements |
89 |